Herculaneum scrolls: UK’s Parsons role in “reading the unreadable”

Stephen Parsons, visiting scholar at the University of Kentucky, discusses his role of writing sophisticated artificial intelligence programs (AI) and building machine learning frameworks with the goal of revealing Herculaneum ink. BREAKTHROUGH: A major announcement on the two-decade journey to uncover ancient wisdom and read the Herculaneum scrolls will take place at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 12 via livestream: https://engr.uky.edu/live You can learn more about the Vesuvius Challenge, an on-going global competition to read the Herculaneum scrolls, here: https://scrollprize.org/